Revisiting Blassingame's The Slave Community: The Scholars RespondAl-Tony Gilmore Original essays critiquing John W. Blassingame's pioneering 1972 work, 'The slave community : plantation life in the antebellum South,' which broke with historical tradition by basing itself largely on the autobiographies and other personal records of enslaved persons themselves. Blassingame's book was controversial both for what it did and what it failed to do. In 'Revisiting Blassingame's The slave community,' nine scholars go over the approach, conclusions, and reception of 'The slave community,' and discuss the historiography of enslavement in America before and after its publication. |
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